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Family GRUIDAE: Cranes 



Subfamily GRUINAE: Cranes 



Genus ALETORNIS Marsh so 



Alctoniis Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., scr. 3, vol. 14, October 1872, p. 256. 

 Type, by subsequent designation, Aletornis nobilis Marsh (Hay, 1902). 



Aletomis bellus Marsh si 



Aletornis bellus Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 4, October 1872, 

 p. 258. 



Eocene (Bridger formation) : Grizzly Buttes, Wyoming. 



Aletornis gracilis Marsh ^^ 



Aletornis gracilis Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 4, October 1872, 

 p. 258. 



Eocene (Bridger formation) : Henry's Fork, Wyoming. 

 Aletornis nobilis Marsh ^2 

 Aletornis nobilis Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 4, October 1872, p. 256. 

 Eocene (Bridger formation) : Grizzly Buttes, Wyoming. 



Aletornis pemix Marsh 

 Aletornis pemix Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 4, October 1872, p. 256. 



Eocene (Bridger formation) : Henry's Fork, Wyoming. 



Genus FULICALETORNIS Lambrecht 



Fulicaletornis Lambrecht, Handb. Palaeorn., 1933, p. 479. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Aletornis venustus Marsh. 



s" Allocation in the subfamily Gruinae provisional. 



51 Considered by Shufcldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 19, Febru- 

 ary 191 5, pp. 32, 76, as possibly a species of Scolopacidae. 



52 Marsh in his original proiwsal of the genus Aletornis included in it five 

 si)ecies without selecting a type. From the five in question Hay, U. S. Geol. 

 Surv., Bull. 179, 1902, p. 527, designated Aletomis nobilis Marsh as genotype. 

 Shufeldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 19, 1915, pp. 30, 31, placed 

 A. nobilis in Grus, and described in the same paper (p. yy) Grtis marshi. Lam- 

 brecht, Handb. Palaeorn., 1933, p. 520, proposed the genus Protogrus for 

 Aletornis nobilis and Grus marshi, without designating a type. Lambrecht's 

 action as regards A. nobilis obviously is erroneous as his proposed genus in- 

 cludes the genotype of Aletornis. Aletornis nobilis, therefore, is to be listed 

 as above, and pending study Grus marshi is included tentatively under Grus. 

 Brodkorb, Condor, vol. 54, No. 3, May 21, 1952, p. 175, has designated A. nobilis, 

 already the type of Aletornis through action by Hay, as the type of Protogrus. 

 That generic name therefore becomes a synonym of Aletomis. 



